Chiral metasurfaces hold excellent performance in enhancing spin-dependent light-matter interaction, showing broad application prospects in areas such as chiral imaging, chiral light sources, and chiral sensing. However, utilizing resonant metasurfaces to achieve all-optical logic gates has not been reported yet. In this work, dual-channel intrinsic and nonlinear chiroptical responses are achieved on lithium niobate metasurfaces. The combination of bound states in the continuum (BICs) resonant modes with chiral metasurfaces has revealed its linear and nonlinear chirality. The metasurface achieves linear circular dichroism above 0.9 and nonlinear circular dichroism close to 0.9 on the dual-band. Based on the second-order nonlinear chiroptical response, multiple all-optical logic gates (including NOT, OR, NAND, AND, and NOR) can be realized on the chiral metasurfaces. Our results confirm the operability of resonant metasurfaces in realizing all-optical logic gates, offering a potentially promising approach for the development of new, to the best of our knowledge, all-optical logic devices.
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